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Tropical Rainforest Plot Network: Understorey Floristic Data, Northern Queensland, Australia, 1972+

The Tropical Rainforest Plot Network Rainforest Understorey Floristic Data contains understorey floristic data from all 20 of its 0.5 ha (100 m x 50 m) permanent rainforest plots in Northern Queensland, Australia. Data was collected for all plots at the time of establishment before 1981 and data was again collected for half of the plots post-2000.


The CSIRO permanent rainforest plots are located within 60 km of the north Queensland coast between Mackay (21.5ºS, 149ºE) and the Iron Range on Cape York Peninsula (12.5ºS, 143ºE). The plots have a rainfall range of 1200 to 3500 mm, represent eleven vegetation types, six parent materials, and range from 15 m to 1200 m above sea level. Except for minor disturbances associated with selective logging on two plots, the plots were established in old growth forest and all plots have thereafter been protected. In conjunction with the Tree Demographic Data packages which have been collected by the Tropical Rainforest Plot Network, the data collected from these 20 plots provides an insight into the floristical composition, structure and long term forest dynamics of Australian tropical rainforests and allows direct comparisons to be made with long-term monitoring plots at a global scale. For further background data please refer to Bradford, M.G., Murphy, H.T., Ford, A.J., Hogan, D. and Metcalfe, D.J. (2014) "Long-term stem inventory data from tropical rain forest plots in Australia", Ecology, 95(8): 2362. Ecological Archives E095-209-D1. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/14-0458R .1


A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Tropical Rainforest Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/tropical-rainforest .

Data can be sourced from: http://doi.org/10.4225/08/59475c67be7a4 or https://data.csiro.au/dap/landingpage?pid=csiro:6638

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2018-10-22
Date (Revision)
2018-10-22
Edition
19

Publisher

Australian National University
10 East Road, Acton, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Acton
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia

Author

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - Ford, Andrew (Research Technician)
Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Black Mountain
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia

Author

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - Metcalfe, Dan (Research Scientist)
Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Black Mountain
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia

Author

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - Bradford, Matt (Senior Experimental Scientist)
Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Black Mountain
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia

Stakeholder

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - Hyland, Bernie
Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Black Mountain
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia

Stakeholder

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - Irvine, Tony
Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Black Mountain
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia

Stakeholder

- Sanderson, Keith

Stakeholder

University of Tasmania - Unwin, Greg
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Vegetation structure
  • Plant species composition
  • Plant species abundance
  • Individual plants
  • Cyclones
  • Climate change
  • rainforest
  • mortality
  • recruitment
  • cyclone
  • hurricane
  • disturbance
  • stem growth
  • stem height
  • permanent plot
  • Australia
  • biomass
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Climate change impacts and adaptation
  • Ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
  • PLANTS

Extent

Description
The CSIRO permanent rainforest plots are located within 60 km of the north Queensland coast between Mackay (21.5ºS, 149ºE) and the Iron Range on Cape York Peninsula (12.5ºS, 143ºE). North-eastern Australia is topographically diverse, and the plots span much of the geographical variation in environmental gradients across the study area. The climate is tropical with mean annual rainfall ranging from 1200 mm to over 8000 mm on the higher coastal ranges. Seventeen of the plots are located within the Wet Tropics Bioregion (sensu Department of Environment 2013) between 19.4ºS, 146.5ºE and 15.7ºS, 145.3ºE.
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Temporal extent

Time period
1972-01-01 2016-01-01

Resource constraints

Use limitation
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Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Spatial coordinates for plots are available at https://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern2.99/html (Tropical Rainforest Plot Network: Plot Details - Spatial Coordinates, Northern Queensland, Australia).

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

Australian National University
10 East Road, Acton, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Acton
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia
Distribution format
OnLine resource
http://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern9.62/html

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/1c43a666-e25c-5d4a-aa33-88d5e736a384

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID - Long Term Ecological Research Network

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/1c43a666-e25c-5d4a-aa33-88d5e736a384

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2018-10-22T00:00:00
Date info (Revision)
2018-11-14T00:00:00

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
Edition
1

Metadata standard

Title
ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
Edition
1.0

Metadata standard

Title
ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
Edition
1.0
Title
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
Date (published)
2021
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Climate change impacts and adaptation Ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
PLANTS

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